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Order of Business (3 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: That took the wind out of Deputy Bernard J. Durkan's sails.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Functions (3 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 548. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role his Department will have in the forthcoming referendum on voting age in May 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3267/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (3 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 549. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has made contact with the European Commission since its comments on water rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4304/15]

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I raise the question of how we are treating elderly people in our hospital system and the complete absence of dignity in such treatment. We were all appalled last week when we heard the story of Gerry Feeney, who spent more than five days in the emergency department in Beaumont and was denied the basics of daily living, such as eating, dressing, bathing and getting out of bed, when he was...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said that he made the Taoiseach aware of the budgetary issues and that a spending plan could be brought forward later in the year. Does the Taoiseach intend to act now? The Gerry Feeney case arose some weeks ago and that doctor's letter was written in December.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Government make the decision to provide the necessary spending plan to take people out of their misery and give some dignity back to elderly people in our hospitals?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that the situation is not "satisfactory". That is a mild word given the content of letter from the specialist registrar and the experience of people attending emergency departments. The Minister for Health told the Joint Committee on Health and Children last week that additional resources are needed for the fair deal scheme. He outlined two realistic options, namely,...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said he cannot make the decision on the spending plan on his own.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: He said that it must be done in conjunction with the Cabinet committee on health and the Economic Management Council, the members of which are fully appraised of the situation since last November. Does the Taoiseach accept that the funding levels are not adequate to deal with this situation in the coming months, including in respect of delayed discharges and their impact on emergency...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: They are false budgets.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is an absolute disgrace.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is playing election slogans while people are being treated on trolleys.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Tá geallúint i gclár an Rialtais an méid daltaí atá ag tabhairt faoin Ghaolainn san Ardteist ag ardleibhéal a dhúbailt le linn tréimhse an Rialtais. Conas atá ag éirí leis an Rialtas maidir leis an geallúint sin? Cé mhéad daltaí atá ag déanamh an Ghaolainn ag ardleibhéal san Ardteist faoi...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: An bhfuil aon tuairim ag an Taoiseach é féin?

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last week I raised the issue of home repossessions and mortgage arrears and the numbers of cases coming before the courts. There have been 7,000 repossession orders lodged in the courts as of January of this year, not to mind the 8,000 last year, and it is estimated that over the next two years up to 25,000 family homes could be repossessed. It is interesting to note that two thirds of those...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: To end that situation and to dilute the power of the banks, we brought in constructive legislation last week but the Government said "No way", that it was not going to accept it and kept its head in the sand in terms of the enormity of the issue. The Government then put forward the line that somehow it was the borrowers' fault and that those in arrears were not engaging with the banks. Two...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It was a very detached comment by the Minister for Finance in the context of the extraordinary anxiety and stress for many ordinary families, couples, women and so forth, who were brought before the courts to have their houses repossessed. The problem is growing at an alarming rate. The Minister said he would change the personal insolvency legislation: the service has only dealt with 199...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: To be frank, that is a meaningless response. The Taoiseach made reference to adjustments and named three items that are not adjustments at all. Making people aware of something is not changing anything. An independent audit of how poorly a system is working is not changing anything, with only 199 cases concluded to date. The third point I could not quite understand, to be frank. The...